yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[HTC Desire S] Nexx:
I'm still here and working =) I'm afraid our family dog passed away last week so I've not really been up to development work since then. I've managed to get some done today and have been working on supporting phone encryption.

1) Fixed, will be in the next release.

2) The Torch app isn't currently being compiled on CM9, I'm looking to add the CM7 version into the next release, assuming it works correctly.

3+4) I'll look into these.

We have been =) Still more kernel work to be done yet!
[HTC Desire S] thebiffman:
I just began a couple of days ago to use this alpha build daily (and not just trying it out from time to time) and it runs really good. Ive been keeping away from heavy 3D apps (like most games) and havent had a restart yet. On CM7 I had problems with the phone app just being incredible slow and locking up sometimes, this does not happen with this alpha ROM. I do have a couple of things I would like to bring to your attention though.

1. When bringing up the list to choose ringtone or notification the list/settings app locks up and dont respond. After reboot it worked fine again.

edit: To clarify. Its when I press a ringtone or notification sound to preview it that the app locks up.

2. When trying to switch between 2G/3G and 3G only with the power widget in the notification bar it doesn't seem to actually change the setting. I usually end up long-pressing the icon to toggle the setting in the settings app.

edit: Maybe this is it? http://review.cyanogenmod.com/#change,12820

Thanks for a great ROM =)

- Andreas / thebiffman
[HTC Desire S] djsubtronic:
@Nexx, sorry to hear about the dog dude :(
[HTC Desire S] eyahl:
yes I feel really sorry too.

Reminds me of my cat that died last year. Went with me for about 12 years. :(

Sent my thoughts to your head with XDA App
[HTC Desire S] Nexx:
Thank you =) She was 13 which for her breed was a good age, it's always hard when pets pass on but you move on eh?

Anyway, I'll push a new build on-line tomorrow, latest code + fixes / etc. Will update the change-log too. Sorry again for the delay =)
[HTC Desire S] Tectas:
Really no need to apologise, they are family members and you need your time to mourn :)

Swifted from my Desire S far away from my PC
[HTC Desire S] mixalakis32:
Sorry to hear that. Take care nexx and thanks for your work
[HTC Desire S] thebiffman:
Just noticed this:

The WiFi seems to have been on during the night even though I chose the setting to only keep WiFi on if plugged in (which it wasnt). Didnt seem to use that much battery though.
[HTC Desire S] BillGoss:
I leave my account sync (Exchange, Google) on, data on, wifi on all the time. From midnight to 6 AM on a fully charged phone and no usage because I'm asleep, the battery will still be at 100% when I get up.

Edit; here's the screenshot

Swyped from my HTC Desire S on CM9 using Tapatalk
[HTC Desire S] gambit1091:
Nexx is there any possibility that the kernel for CM 9 will be updated?
[HTC Desire S] Ovigo:
I don't know how it is on ICS, but I know that for stock ROM s wifi is actually more battery efficient than 3G. I always leave my wifi on overnight, and seldomly have more than 8% drain. (on virtuous 4)
[HTC Desire S] chubby65:
Great rom but battery not so good
[HTC Desire S] flykthewiz:
whats you battery app
[HTC Desire S] nk111:
Don't know if this is su related...

but "adb remount" fails with "remount failed: Operation not permitted"

Even though "su" in adb shell works.
[HTC Desire S] chubby65:
ZDbox it's more than just battery app that was with an overnight charge with no use whatsoever
[HTC Desire S] flykthewiz:
no i meant what app is the screenshot of
[HTC Desire S] chubby65:
ZDbox free on the market
[HTC Desire S] flykthewiz:
ah i see :-)
[HTC Desire S] chubby65:
Quite a good box of tricks very useful
[HTC Desire S] nk111:
Fix Home button

for those (like me) who really miss the home button ;)

here is an update script with does the fix from mdj:

hope it works for everyone coz I had some trouble making it compatible with clockworkmod recovery...

all credit to mdj for the suggestion! (and nexx for the ROM of course)
[HTC Desire S] korenisko:
I downgraded to cm7.2 for now because of bugs and phone froze 2x. I don't know, but can be Tasker related. (Frozen on tasker window)

Anyway, I have nand backup and hope that come back soon :-)
[HTC Desire S] shrome99:
Nexx, what's the status of the browser issue? If it's hard to fix, try to release a build with all fixes mentioned yesterday :)
[HTC Desire S] korenisko:
thats what I saying...
[HTC Desire S] amidabuddha:
Does the version in post #1 contain the su fix? The MD5 is the same as of the initial one...

Can't wait to flash but it is a strange silence in the ICS threads today ?
[HTC Desire S] shrome99:
Nexx has fixed the bugs, but he didn't upload the build. He found a browser bug that affects all cm9 devices. As soon as that's fixed, he'll release the fixed build.
[HTC Desire S] Nexx:
Apologies for not replying today, I've spent a good portion of the day getting a new development box online so that I'm no-longer compiling with my laptop.

For those interested, it's an AMD Phenom II X6 1090T, a huge jump over the poor Core 2 Duo in my laptop ^.~

Compile times for CM9 have dropped from 2 hours to 40 minutes without ccache, and from an hour to roughly 20 minutes with ccache. Much better =)

No progress has been made on the big issue yet, but it affects more than just the browser. It would seem anything using webcore triggers it and it results in a really nasty crash. I've even had it happen in apps which display a changelog, so it's quite widespread.

Believe me when I say, we're working hard to find the cause, and in the mean time I'm improving other aspects of CM9 for our device.

I hope to have some better news soon. As for putting out a built with su and such fixed, I can, but the webcore issue is really widespread, personally I'd recommend dropping to another ROM for just a little while.
[HTC Desire S] nk111:
Or try like I do. Use opera for browsing and apply the home button fix for usability ;) makes waiting easier...
[HTC Desire S] faddys123:
How to get the crt animation? Its being missed out of all the roms? When it is the stock ics anyway
[HTC Desire S] Nexx:
Alpha 070112 out, all outstanding bugs fixed =)

Enjoy!
[HTC Desire S] djsubtronic:
Thanks Nexx

Before I try this out could you let me know re. the earlier question posted, i.e. is the function to change tracks using the volume keys (when screen off) incorporated in this as yet?
[HTC Desire S] Nexx:
I'm afraid I don't know, I'll test tomorrow if someone doesn't beat me to it in the mean time.
[HTC Desire S] Tectas:
The whole thing is still alpha, it sure will be updated (sry nexx that i answer a to you directed question [hope i don't say something wrong, if yes, sry]).

But there is an alternate kernel since yesterday, look here (tiamat is back :D).
[HTC Desire S] gambit1091:
yes I already downloaded that and I will try it later on but don't know how to use it.. just gonna flash the boot.img and try to flash the rom and tiamat kernel via recovery and I will test if it will work:p

still a newbie to kernels and stuffs
[HTC Desire S] Tectas:
Just flashed it with recovery over my old one with just wiping cache & dalvik cache.

Works flawless for me, but if you used htcdev, i'm not sure if it's working the common way, because there is no boot.img inside the zip, the kernel is built by some scripts and binarys if i understand it right, but there is also dd present, because of this i think it should work from recovery at htcdev unlocked devices without any fastboot commands.
[HTC Desire S] onlyankush_s:
Have you tried that kernel. How is it as compared to current cm9 and quattro
[HTC Desire S] Tectas:
Yes, running it at the moment, seems pretty good and works flawless and wifi seems a bit better, but haven't really tested it yet, because i'm at work.
[HTC Desire S] gambit1091:
i've successfully flashed the tiamat kernel but upon checking the phone version the cm 9 kernel still appears.. is it the way it should work?:confused:
[HTC Desire S] Tectas:
Ok, sry, looks like i've been wrong, will upload my boot.img and post it at the tiamat release thread, will also add the library included and write a short describtion.

Edit: Added the files and a walkthrough to the ics announcement thread.
[HTC Desire S] gambit1091:
thanks man.. already flashed the tiamat kernel and it is working good with CM 9, 2 things to go.. proper camera driver or fix and working fm radio this will be my daily driver :)
[HTC Desire S] mindbox:
Nightly Builds..

Is there a repository for any nightly builds on this build yet?
[HTC Desire S] Airpil:
Nexx, Thank you for new build =) As usual, It's awesome.
[HTC Desire S] Nexx:
New build posted. Nothing major added, just an incremental update and a couple of fixes =)
[HTC Desire S] onlyankush_s:
Long time Nexx, Good to see you back...

will i need to flash the tiamat kernel again, or the stock kernel is improved like tiamat one...
[HTC Desire S] amidabuddha:
Sorry to being an eventual whiner but the link says:

- CyanogenMod 9 Alpha for HTC Desire S (Updated 11 Feb 2012)

Is this the right one?

Edit: just clicked the link and it has the version in the filename. Thanks shrome99 for the quick response!
[HTC Desire S] shrome99:
The name of the file is "update-cm-9.0.0-Alpha-DesireS-signed-20120222" so, yeah it's the one you want. Nexx, please edit the text in the OP to avoid further confusion
[HTC Desire S] hippihippo:
A new kernel and a new build to play with? We're spoilt today. I can't download them fast enough... :P

Swyped from my Desire S.
[HTC Desire S] amidabuddha:
Ok first impressions:

* still no joy with face unlock (which worked flawlessly on nk111 version)

* there are the Galleries now - which one is better to use: Stock CM or Google?

* images in landscape are almost OK (just a tiny line on top - it was the same on the previous build) and the flash is working! I had a FC on initial startup but the clearing app data trick solved it
[HTC Desire S] Nexx:
The Tiamat kernel won't contain the newest fixes, but they're mostly for the encryption which isn't working yet anyway. You should be fine with either.

Fixed, sorry.

Ok, let's handle these in order =)

Face-unlock:

The setParameters call for the front-cam is currently disabled as it causes camera crashes after a reboot. This means changing image size, zoom and any other parameters won't be set. The crash is in the camera wrapper we're using (using GB libs on ICS) and the crash occurs inside the binary camera blob. Tracking down why is proving difficult right now but it is being worked on. Disabling this unfortunately breaks face-unlock it seems =(

Galleries:

I think the Google one is only different in that it supports Picassa syncing.

Stills Camera:

Thanks for testing, glad the flash is working =)

Once again, sorry for going quiet for the past week-and-a-bit, I hope to ramp back up with development soon but I wanted to get an updated build out for you all with the updated Google apps.
[HTC Desire S] onlyankush_s:
@Nexx

Gapps Link is incorrect, but i have downloaded it.

Correct it in OP.

GAPPS Link
[HTC Desire S] Darky135:
In Virtuous ICS version a few weeks ago (the 1st ICS that came out)

there was a live wallpaper called "Microbes" that I really liked, but I noticed that it's not in the CM9 alpha build... Was this a new live wallpaper from ICS or something else?
[HTC Desire S] luky4:
Nexx market no ready.
[HTC Desire S] djsubtronic:
Backlights for the four buttons at the bottom still doesn't work. If I toggle auto brightness, they light up, until the screen goes off and then they don't come on again until auto brightness is toggled again.
[HTC Desire S] Airpil:
nexx, can you check this trick and maybe integrate it into ICS rom.

For Russian language it works good. Auto-correction is works but words are stay underlined

Auto-Correct/Dictionary Fix for ICS Roms
[HTC Desire S] BillGoss:
In Settings/Display/Automatic backlight/Light Levels check Use Custom, then Edit other levels and set the Button brightness to 255 for all levels. That way they stay on all the time.
[HTC Desire S] pandollar:
Camera FC nearly every time so I changed to front camera and took a shot ( not pretty) and then changed camera back to normal and it works good now thanks.
[HTC Desire S] zeekabal:
Hi guys,

So far everything is great! It is the first time an ICS ROM convince my mind with performance. I have few questions,

- what about LED notifications? I cannot find where to configure them. In CM7 there used to be a tab of cyanogenmod configu under settings where is it?

- the keyboard is hanging while typing, it can be restored whenever i press back and forth again.

- Why scrolling has became slower? Whenever you give a fast swipe the page scrolls slower and stops earlier as it used to be before.

- Quadrant benchmarking is still showing less performance than CM7 yet, but still convincing to switch :)

Thanks
[HTC Desire S] JackyJack:
Maybe quadrant is not itself optimized for ICS...

Well, V2 does support ICS according to the changelog but how ?
[HTC Desire S] luky4:
From the Android Market will not bring me es file Explorer. Please help!
[HTC Desire S] BillGoss:
Don't you use TB to backup your apps and restore them after a ROM upgrade?

Swyped from my HTC Desire S on CM9 using Tapatalk
[HTC Desire S] luky4:
What do I do that I will run the Android Market? Please
[HTC Desire S] scrack26:
question, i tried CM9, and it's kinda slow on my phone? i did clean install, using HBOOT 0.98.2000 - do i need the new HBOOT for this? because i read couple of threads that with new HBOOT Sense 3 and above runs faster, i just thought would it be the same with CM9?
[HTC Desire S] BillGoss:
I'm running an even older version of HBOOT. I'm quite happy with the performance.

Swyped from my HTC Desire S on CM9 using Tapatalk
[HTC Desire S] Airpil:
Jast install gaaps

http://ftp.f3l.de/~nexx/gapps/gapps-ics-20120215-signed.zip
[HTC Desire S] crescal:
In the new version I can't find my direction in Google map, I.e. I got only a dot (rather than an arrow) at my location. Anyone have the same problem?

(FYI I flashed the tiamat kernel and agps patch)
[HTC Desire S] kaliberx:
Same here, but i think it's normal under ICS.
[HTC Desire S] thedieselspaceship:
Music app stops if selected audio file is located out of music directory

When I try to play music file that is located not in the music directory Music app closes.

Reproducible all the time.

Steps to reproduce:

1. Save audio file out of music directory.

2. Run Music app.

3. Press sensor 'Search' button

4. Fill the title of audio track. Press 'Enter' button on keyboard
[HTC Desire S] BillGoss:
Interesting! It even happens if the file is under Music. And another interesting thing, the song will play, Music stopped working dialogue shows, and song will only stop after you press Ok on the dialogue.

Swyped from my HTC Desire S on CM9 using Tapatalk
[HTC Desire S] bsbharath1987:
Volume Wake works again!
[HTC Desire S] djsubtronic:
When charging, instead of showing the percent and "Charging" on the lock screen, it shows "Sorry try again" lol!
[HTC Desire S] amidabuddha:
Hey thanks for the info, I haven't check this! Finally my Power button can rest a bit :)
[HTC Desire S] rakhan01:
Good rom. It's my first ics try. Great experience so far.
[HTC Desire S] allprint:
Where can I find the settings to wake volume buttons?
[HTC Desire S] steelbeans:
Can't seem to set the ringtone/message tone to something on my SD, only preset ones are availible, using Go sms...

Think im heading back to ice cold sandwich anyway till this is more fluid :)

Nice work though!!

Beans
[HTC Desire S] big-okieh:
Did anyone of you guys use the new release with the Tiamat_Saga-v022112 kernel?

I experience a huge power drain since! After 11h on battery I am down to 37%. 26% the power is used by mobile standby. I used the Tiamat with SmartAssV2 governor, set to 184-1036MHz and viperMOD undervolting -25mV.
[HTC Desire S] dan-fish:
mine is also slightly high. 80% before I slept then woke up, used the phone for a while and it drained to about 30%.
[HTC Desire S] bsbharath1987:
I could not find any settings for this feature. The Lockscreen settings page seems to be a placeholder for now. It just worked out of the box.
[HTC Desire S] kapybarus:
do you think it can be repaired or fixed in future or stable releases or it is something what comes with ICS?
[HTC Desire S] onlyankush_s:
Ofcourse Yes...
[HTC Desire S] dan-fish:
agreed. ICS kernels still have huge potential and we'll see it once HTC release the source code for kernel version 3.0. However, as far as i've seen battery drainage seems to vary a lot for every device and it's one thing that is hard to track down making it a very difficult problem to solve. However, the drain isn't really bad. I think i can live with it.
[HTC Desire S] big-okieh:
Pls note that I was talking about poor battery after patching CM9 with the new ICS Tiamat kernel. With the CM9 kernel, my battery is quite nice.
[HTC Desire S] djsubtronic:
So what is the point of flashing it?
[HTC Desire S] eyahl:
Settings> display> volume rocker wake
[HTC Desire S] djsubtronic:
Bug: When I select "turn on USB storage" and the confirmation comes on asking are you sure you want to turn on USB storage etc etc, the title bar of that message reads "Turn OFF USB storage" instead of turn ON.
[HTC Desire S] microlah:
Upgraded to the latest version, now once again I am getting that problem where I can't download or update any Apps on the Android Market. It just locks up at "Downloading..." and not move at all.

I even tried wiping and flashing the ROM from ground up and it didn't help.
[HTC Desire S] BeDesireS:
I deleted the data of the market app and after a reboot everything was fine for me.

I installed 7 updates in a row without problem!
[HTC Desire S] microlah:
How do you go about doing that, I've deleted the data in both "Manage Apps" and in Titanium Backup. It didn't fix the problem.
[HTC Desire S] BillGoss:
Another suggestion:

Clean install ROM only

Boot up the phone

Reboot into Recovery

Install Gapps

Swyped from my HTC Desire S on CM9 using Tapatalk
[HTC Desire S] BeDesireS:
I just deleted the data in manage Apps and after the reboot it worked again.

Before I had around 5 downloads that suddenly stopped, but after clearing the data

everything is fine again!

Maybe you should really try to flash the new Gapps from first post,

because I did this together with the new update. Maybe this was the trick!? ;)
[HTC Desire S] nk111:
Yes this time official with settings option.

Next cool things coming up are possibly crt animation and use volume keys as cursor!
[HTC Desire S] BeDesireS:
Yeah! And it would be great, if we could decrease the vibration of the keys,

because in my opinion they are really to strong!

I tested the ported ICS version from Lord Clockan and there it was perfect.

Anyway.. Great Work Nexx :)
[HTC Desire S] microlah:
Finally fixed it by wiping the Market data, reboot and fake switched the market region to USA using Market Enabler. Weird.
[HTC Desire S] nk111:
Which vibration? The softkeys or in IME?
[HTC Desire S] BeDesireS:
IME? I guess you mean the input of the keyboard!?

That`s not a problem because I use swiftkey x and there I can adjust the vibration.

I meant the vibration of the softkeys. For me it`s stronger than I ever had with any other ROM!?

Can this be true?
[HTC Desire S] casaben:
Just wondering about the current works going on, after reading the comments on the camera issues I just hope video and video chat will become operational.

From my perspective, those are the only real non-functional items still open. All the rest seems to be related to either bugfixing or improving a working item.

Is it realistic to expect some solutions for the video, or will we just have to deal with it :)

Thanks for the great work!
[HTC Desire S] nk111:
from what I can see video is being worked on!
[HTC Desire S] first_damned:
Do still pictures work fine now?
[HTC Desire S] BeDesireS:
The only thing that really bothers me is that the media scan does not work correct!

Everytime you have to start the scan manually, because often there is no media in gallery or music player.

Even when you sometimes take a picture you can`t have a look on it, because it`s not present in gallery.

But when you look into the folder with es file explorer it`s already there!:confused:
[HTC Desire S] nk111:
You can also adjust the vibration for the stock android keyboard! Just go to android keyboard settings / advanced / vibration duration and change the default value -1 to something else. Personally I like values about 20ms.

For the softkey vibration I have made a modified framework-res.apk. PM me if you wanna test it.
[HTC Desire S] Andy3105:
The issues with the Camera and the lack of a flash for it made me dump CM9 and head back to Reaper, can anyone tell me how the new Camera is working?

Any pictures to show?
[HTC Desire S] first_damned:
I would like to know about this also please
[HTC Desire S] BeDesireS:
with LG cam the quality of the pictures is really good.

I think better than the old stock GB HTC cam.

In landscape mod, I have no errors with the new build,

but in normal mode there are still a few small errors on the upper/lower sides.

But its gettin better and better with each new build! :)
[HTC Desire S] first_damned:
Sounds good :) how about battery life? How is it say compared to Reaper rom?

Thanks
[HTC Desire S] BeDesireS:
Hm.. I think it`s not fair to compare this rom with something like Reaper! ;)

For me battery life is fine, but it could be better at least.

In my opinion, battery life is great for a rom that is in such an early stage of development and I am confident,

that it will become even better once all problems are sorted out!

Thx to Nexx and the other devs!
[HTC Desire S] eyahl:
I'm using stock cam. Vertical pictures little pixel errors.

Horizontal fine. Flashlight works. Front cam is rotated. So far, so good...
[HTC Desire S] thedieselspaceship:
Yesterday and today I took some pictures from camera. Sometimes pictures are corrupted. Please look at the pictures below:

On this picture you can see thin line at the bottom​

This picture is distorted too​
[HTC Desire S] enigmaamit:
WOW! You sure do have have a nasty setup on your table man, if i may say so!! :D
[HTC Desire S] big-okieh:
The Tiamat offers some nice UV and OC features as well as different CPU governors, I'd like to use. But for the moment you're right. Inbetween flashed back to CM9 stock kernel because of the much better battery life.
[HTC Desire S] JackyJack:
What is the wallpaper on the first shot ?
[HTC Desire S] enomis27:
What about panorama mode and camcorder? I'm not asking for ETA's ...just wondering XD
[HTC Desire S] thedieselspaceship:
This features are not working now.

---------- Post added at 05:55 PM ---------- Previous post was at 05:49 PM ----------

you can download this wallpaper by following link::

http://omploader.org/vNGRzYg
[HTC Desire S] first_damned:
Its only a slight line, better than I thought. Going to flash this rom now, last time I used it the photo's came out all distorted.
[HTC Desire S] first_damned:
The market place won't download apps it keeps disconnecting and I've got loads to download so unfortunately I will have to leave this rom for the time being until market is fixed
[HTC Desire S] meinnameisthase:
Dude, this is not a ROM problem, it's Market related... try wiping the market data and restart your phone. Market will start to download correctly again after a while.
[HTC Desire S] first_damned:
Hi mate, I've tried that and it does download a few apps but then stops downloading apps again. Ive got 50 odd in my apps list to download, it will take lots of clear data of the market and phone restarts lol. I've read other people have had problems with the market also on this rom and that using the Tiamat kernel fixes this but the battery drain is dreadful